After I Dumped My Poor Fiancé

Fu Ruoshui's birth mother died young. Her father took her mother's younger half-sister as his second wife, and the household was soon full of younger siblings. So she learned from childhood that if she wanted a good life, she could only rely on herself. When her shabby fiancé from an arranged childhood betrothal came all the way from Xuzhou to seek her out, she came up with a plan to force him to break off the engagement. Two months later, she married into the marquis's household as the heir's wife.

But within a year, the marquis's household fell into ruin. Meanwhile, her former fiancé, Jiang Xu, passed the highest imperial examination and rose rapidly through the ranks.

Before she was implicated in the marquis's household's downfall and thrown into prison, Fu Ruoshui had no choice but to seek Jiang Xu's help.

She wore the double-bun hairstyle she had worn when they first met, and the white jade plum-blossom hairpin he had given her when they became engaged. She brought him his favorite Jin Jun Mei tea. "I was wrong about what happened back then. Please, sir, don't hold it against me."

Jiang Xu sipped his tea and smiled. "Whatever happened, we were once engaged. How could I stand by and watch you die?" And so he gave her a way to live.

When the marquis's household was confiscated, the heir's wife, who had always worn fine clothes and jewels, became a low-ranking concubine dressed in plain clothes in the Jiang household.

Ruoshui had thought Jiang Xu was a gentleman. How could she have known that the refined, handsome top scholar would keep her tangled in his arms all night, never satisfied?

At dawn, Jiang Xu held the Jin Jun Mei Ruoshui had brought him. His long eyes were calm, and the corners of his mouth lifted slightly as he said, "Don't even think about leaving the Jiang household. The new mistress is coming, and you'll be there to serve her."

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To Jiang Xu, she was a faithless woman, and at first, he was only playing with her to get revenge.

Who doesn't have their own tastes?

He simply liked her face, liked gripping her slender waist, liked teasing her and making her cry, and liked hearing her sweetly ask for jewelry and fine clothes.

Then his new, high-born wife was about to enter the household, and Fu Ruoshui fell gravely ill. Her beauty faded, and she grew gaunt and frail, sunk in gloom day after day. She could hardly be expected to serve the new mistress; she might not even make it through the winter.

Jiang Xu was troubled. By his usual standards, he wouldn't keep anyone around who was no longer useful.

But after sending her back to the Fu family, he suddenly lost his appetite and couldn't sit still.

He saw Fu Ruoshui again at the spring hunting grounds. What illness had that woman ever had? Wearing a smart riding outfit, she was aiming a flirtatious glance at the newly returned General of the North...

Jiang Xu's smile fell...

[A vain woman x a hypocrite]

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